Moonlight Graham

Everyone has free will, nothing is "imposed". America isn't forcing Canadian couples to not have babies. Caucasian Canadians shouldn't be blaming immigrants or politicians for their own family decisions. We need population growth to sustain capitalist economic growth on the TSX. Canadians don't have children so we need a lot of immigrants or the population will keep shrinking indefinitely. There's no 3rd option.

Stop whining and go have babies. Westerners don't want them anymore. They're lazy, spoiled, entitled. Our women would rather work and have 1 or 2 kids or none at all. Canada and every other western country is decaying by decadence. An endangered civilization. You stop immigration and the population of Canada will be 15 million in several decades. Wait longer and it will be close to zero eventually if reproduction rates don't reverse. So go have babies or STFU.

Dear Canada, Don't blame immigrants or politicians because you didn't have enough babies to sustain a society. Blame yourselves if anyone.

You're right, the commies are winning. When I die i'll die with my hands unshackled. To the very last man. They can send the mounties to try to arrest me for whatever creepy law they come up with next. They'll have to shoot me in my driveway because i'm not coming alive. For King and country.

You must have played in the band when you served. You know a lot of songs. Funny song, I prefer the original, Lili Marlene. A security agreement between countries is not an oath of citizenship.

"I am a Loyalist, but when convenient I'll just run back to the USA instead of fighting to the death for my King and country". The British Crown hasn't existed in North America since 1953, so you've never officially sworn an oath to the British Crown in your entire life anyways. Multiple citizenship is an abomination that exists for convenience only and should be abolished. Choose your loyalty and choose it wisely. If war or even a trade dispute ever breaks out between the US and Canada again we won't know where your loyalties stand. At least the Americans are smart enough to not recognize dual citizenship, even with Canada. The Laurentian elties, especially the Liberals from Quebec and their cohorts, have eroded this country so much over the last 50 years and enabled limp-noodle policies like this. Our heroes who were born out of the battlefields of WWII are rolling in their graves.

" I am a republican. God save the King"

Del

I wonder how much population growth, and by extension immigration, Canada currently needs in order to sustain our economic growth at around historical averages? We never hear these numbers and arguments from our policy makers. Why are certain immigration numbers targeted or others? Canada has the highest immigration rate per capita in the western world I believe. Other countries, like Japan and China, are in the opposite situation where see themselves as overpopulated and so they don't require immigrants and have actually been trying to reduce their populations.

Not if we get those Sea King helicopters back in service! America should join the Commonwealth.

Hey white nationalists, i'll see you chumps at the polls. May the best man win. I've already got my ballot filled out for the 2040 federal election. I'm wavering between the Chinese Communist Party of Canada or the Khalastani Alliance. The ballot won't fit in the mail-in envelope though, it's too thick because everything is translated into Canada's 7 different future official languages.

The Americans are anti-monarchy as their raison d'etre and told the leader of the House of Hanover, King George III, to suck it. A republican monarchist is an interesting take. White nationalism is so 2015. Let's get back to the protestants vs catholics. Now there's something I can really sink my teeth into. Trudeau is....A CATHOLIC, zomg!!!

It isn't the "British" commonwealth anymore though. All members of the commonwealth are equal members. The British Crown in Canada has as much relevance as calling it the Australian Crown. Legally it is called the Canadian Crown and King Charles is the King of Canada. They're separate titles. Canada is no longer a vassal of Britain.

Unions don't have a right to strike with essential services. How is rail workers shutting down rail shipping across the country any different than convoy truckers blocking a US-Canada border bridge? These are essential infrastructure for our economy. Canadians have a right to eat, have fuel etc which IMO supercedes the right to strike. CN Teamsters workers union issued a strike notice, and CN issued a lockout notice. Fair enough point about the lockout not getting the same blame. But lockouts are typically done only against unions as a pre-emptive measure before an expected strike. I do strongly support the right to unionize and strike, but there are reasonable limits. To their credit the labour board ordered the union workers back to work and both parties into binding arbitration.

Blackmailing the economy is an interesting negotiation tactic. The gov freaked out and enacted the Emergencies Act when truckers blocked a lane at a border crossing but they're not nearly as concerned when unions do this or indigenous protestors block the railway lines. Universal human rights means treating everyone the same. The left/progressives don't believe in this anymore.

Well there's various factors for inflation. Lack of labour is another, which is another type of "resource". Inflation happens when demand rises faster than supply. When you introduce more money into the market you're increasing demand while supply doesn't keep up. It then takes more money to pay for the same product/service because "more money" doesn't create wealth, production does. That's a reason why families that used to be able to live on 1 income now need 2 incomes to maintain a similar standard of living (e.i. buying a house). So you're right in some ways. It's generally supply and demand, and natural resources are a major factor in "supply" since all natural resources used in any goods or services are limited.

Legendary Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh broke this story on his website recently. I believe it's probably true given its Hersh. Hersh's sources say they covered it up by saying he had "COVID", which was a lie. Hersh also broke the Mai Lai massacre from the Vietnam War, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and that the US government covertly blew up Russian oil pipelines in the Baltic Sea in response to the invasion of Ukraine. https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/leaving-las-vegas

Vance makes me horny.

So should we reduce the size of government? I imagine CPC may likely cut the big programs the Liberals/NDP have put in, and roll back the extra capital gains taxes. We'll see i guess. I am glad the CPC reduced the GST by 2% when Harper got in. An election is coming, the Liberals will get desperate and there will be votes to try to buy. But they need another party to support a budget.

Immigrants would need the same government services as the rest of us do, meaning the public sector would need to expand too in response. The issue is clearly about the rise in % of people working for the government vs private sector. We have expanded government services and bureaucracy. There is a limit to where this is sustainable. 25% is a lot and all parties that aren't the CPC would likely continue expanding it. The NDP would do so obviously even more than the Liberals.

Amazing that resource depletion increased right when businesses shut down due to COVID. Incredible.

Big piece of crap takes the lead over even bigger piece of crap in the polls. America is saved.

There is a distinction between economic and social/cultural issues. "Progressives" aren't the only ones in favour of longer healthier lifespans and medicines, science, nutrition, sanitation etc used to accomplish it. People attending church or debates around "freedom of speech" are not economic issues. Again, what one person sees as "social progress" isn't the same as what another may see it as. Even if you were correct, one could make the argument that having 8 billion people on the planet due to better health outcomes is not necessarily "better" than the situation a century or 2 ago.

Of course "social" counts. And "progress" is a totally subjective term.

Liberals and Dems are leftwing socially. Economics is a different story. They'd probably both like to lean left economically but they are both so darned corrupt that they just can't stop taking money and favours from the rich and corporations and making policy in their favour. More like extreme a-holes.